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prizmdonna

Question for computer people

Jul 06, 2009 13:59

My husband suggested burning one of my professor's online audio lectures so I can listen in the car and maximize my study time. Brilliant! It has helped immensely. However, several of the lectures are streaming video. I have a good, free program on my PC that can capture audio from the .wmv files and save as mp3's, however, that program doesn't ( Read more... )

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lightning_rose July 6 2009, 21:46:36 UTC

I'm surprised your Mac doesn't come with such software, but to answer your question, I believe Audacity will do what you want, and it runs on Mac, Windoze and Linux. And it's free, as in beer.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

prizmdonna July 6 2009, 21:48:47 UTC

Thank you so much! I am running (figuratively) right now to grab it.

My Mac may very well have something. Sadly, I am not wise in the way of the Mac!

- donna

rosefox July 6 2009, 22:03:03 UTC

You could do it with Quicktime, theoretically, but Audacity makes it easier.

prizmdonna July 6 2009, 22:32:27 UTC

So far, it's not working. The dropdown box where you can select the input only gives me the default option. I've done some reading and apparently audacity will not work with all soundcards.

Any clue how to do it with quicktime?

- donna

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alienghic July 6 2009, 22:52:14 UTC

I wonder if something like Clive would work, it knows how to convert some flash streaming movies into a downloaded file, but it only supports some sites.

Alternatively, there's always the analog hole, and pointing a mic at something playing the video.

WireTap Pro cos July 7 2009, 00:00:42 UTC

I've used WireTap Pro on my Mac for years, to record streaming NPR shows and so on. It's simple and great.

Ambrosia, who sell it, replaced it last year with WireTap Studio, which you can also use for the same thing, though it has more features and a bit more complexity. If you Google for WireTap Pro you can still find it. I'm not sure if you can still pay & register it, if not then go with WireTap Studio. The free version of WireTap only created .wav files, which I would then convert to mp3 in iTunes, but that was annoying, and WireTap Pro also automatically clips silence off the beginning and end of your recording.